£ … per incident: suicides in immigration detention
Melanie McFadyean, 16 November 2006
Nusrat Raza, a young Pakistani woman, was seen by a passer-by as a ‘great ball of fire coming down the stairs’ of her house. Raza, an asylum seeker who lived in Bradford, had recently been told that the Home Office had refused her claim to stay in the country.
At least 221 asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers have died violent deaths in the UK in the past 17 years. They...